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To: Alighieri who wrote (279244)	3/9/2006 10:15:29 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571911

Yeah, I've heard how the military planted stories in Iraqi papers. It's one of the amazing things about the lack of planning of the current activity. The military NEEDS a massive English and Arabic PR machine going. English to maintain US supprt and to generate international support to the extent possible. Arabic to get the general Iraqi population on their side and against the groups that are blowing up the grocery markets. And we see and hear virtually nothing. I'm not a military person, and I can see the need. Why doesn't the military? Actually I recall hearing that one popular TV show in Iraq was one which interrogated captured insurgents, and showed them the death and damage that they had caused and asked them for explanation. So there may be something going on in Arabic, but seems there should be more, and there should be more English PR coming out. It can't be that hard to take 50 journalists to each and every mass grave discovered, to interview Iraqis that were abused under Saddam, etc. etc. EVERY DAY. Yet there seems to be nada. It just occurred to me - someone should make one of those Real World TV series (like Simple Life, Real World on MTV) in Iraq. That would be huge in the US....